Leaked tests show AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D gaming processor with 16 cores

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has been spotted in leaked benchmarks, marking the first time the widely anticipated chip has appeared in the testing world. 16-core flagship gaming processor AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen lineup is expected to have similar specs to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, but with a slight bump in overall performance.

With our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review showing that this chip is the current absolute best gaming processor around, there are plenty of reasons to be curious about what a 16-core chip based on the latest AMD technology can do. Previous 16-core X3D variants such as the 7950X3D and 5950X3D were not as fast in games due to the way the X3D cache is configured. However, there is speculation that the new 16-core chips may use a different X3D configuration, which could reduce their gaming performance.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D was leaked from a benchmark test of the game Factorio. result shown on the FactorioBox benchmark website. It clearly shows the full name of the processor used in the test with the highest score, although other chip specifications are not listed, so we can’t confirm the amount of L3 cache or the clock speed of the chip.

Clicking on the test result shows that the test was run with a slightly ridiculous 256 GB of RAM at 6000 MT/s and ran on a 64-bit version of Windows via Steam. However, no details about the system are provided.

As for the test result itself, the 9950X3D really tops the table, behind models such as 9800X3D And 14900K following behind. However, this test also puts the 5800X3D ahead of every other Intel chip, so it clearly has a strong bias towards the AMD X3D. Moreover, at the top of the test page it notes that “results vary depending on processor clock speed, memory clock speed, memory timings, etc., so take these numbers with a grain of salt.”

Ultimately, the performance offered here doesn’t really matter. However, revealing the full name of the chip is significant since this is the first time we’ve seen its full name in the test.

What else can we expect from the chip, it will almost certainly use the Zen 5 architecture like other 9000 series processors, and we can expect it to use the new 2nd generation version of the 3D V-Cache, which has cache memory. resides below the CPU core die rather than above it as in earlier versions of 3D V-Cache. It is this change that allows the 9800X3D to run at higher clock speeds than the 7800X3D and may also expand the performance capabilities of the 9950X3D.

If that’s all there is to the 9950X3D’s cache, it’s unlikely it’ll be able to beat the 9800X3D’s gaming performance. This is because 16-core X3D chips use two CPU core dies, and the additional 3D V-Cache die is placed on only one of those CPU core dies. This means that the eight cores do not have quick access to the 64MB 3D V-Cache, and there may be latency issues when transferring data from one CPU core to another.

If the 9950X3D uses two 3D V-Cache dies, or one die is somehow better distributed across all 16 cores, it could deliver better performance. However, this is all speculation for now.

Rumors have it that AMD will unveil the 9950X3D and possibly the six-core 9650X3D at CES in January 2025, so we won’t have to wait long to find out the exact situation. For now, however, the 9800X3D remains the best processor at the moment and will likely still be the best choice even if the 9950X3D manages to beat it slightly in overall performance.

While we wait to find out exactly what the 9950X3D has in store for us, why not check out our Intel Core Ultra 265K reviewto see how Intel’s latest gaming processor stacks up against the competition?